“Captains of Industry.”
Bk. IV, ch. 4 (chapter title).
1840s, Past and Present (1843)
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“Captains may come and captains may go, but the administration goes on forever.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 5 (p. 74)

“Gazzy: Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R.”
Source: School's Out—Forever

The Yarn of the "Nancy Bell". Compare: There were three sailors of Bristol city
Who took a boat and went to sea.
But first with beef and captain's biscuits
And pickled pork they loaded she.
There was gorging Jack and guzzling Jimmy,
And the youngest he was little Billee.
Now when they got as far as the Equator
They'd nothing left but one split pea.
W. M. Thackeray: Little Billee.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

“I'm the crazy girly captain, Remember?”
Source: The Arctic Incident